Russian officials want to deport a wounded DPR militiaman to Latvia, where he faces 10 years in prison
Latvian citizen Vyacheslav Vysotsky went to fight for the LPR militia at the height of the fighting - in the summer of 2014. There he was blown up by a mine, miraculously survived, went to Russia for treatment and to ask for temporary asylum, because in Latvia he could be imprisoned for terrorism. But Russian authorities may deport Vysotsky to his homeland.
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“While I was in Donbass, Latvia passed a law according to which participation on the side of the DPR or LPR militia, as well as humanitarian assistance to these republics, is recognized as terrorist activity,” Vysotsky said in an interview "Gazeta.Ru".
According to him, people who help volunteers get from Latvia to these territories, according to the new legislation, are accomplices of terrorists. “I, naturally, fall under this law, I face up to 10 years in prison, and I cannot return to my homeland,” explains the militiaman.
Meanwhile, the Russian Federal Migration Service denied him temporary asylum. “The inspector here wrote me a whole poem, from which it follows that there is no evidence that a prison sentence awaits me in Latvia, that in general Latvia is a democratic republic and that all my arguments are far-fetched. And in the Latvian media, on the contrary, schadenfreude has already begun: look, he was denied in Russia, but here they will put him in prison for 10 years!” says Vysotsky.
Now he will appeal the decision of the district FMS in Moscow on Kirpichnaya Street to the higher body of the FMS. “I will add documents so that the grounds for granting temporary asylum status are iron-clad,” he shares his plans. – The situation is complicated by the fact that they refuse to register me with migration because I did not register within the required seven days. Now the FMS is telling me that they need to expel me from the country and at the same time collect a fine from me. And I’m ready to pay it and continue to fight for the right to live in Russia.”
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